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Citizen K

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    Networking not working with XP SP2
    « on: November 18, 2007, 02:37:08 PM »
    I recently upgraded my server PC from XP to XP SP2. Previously I had no problems with connecting to my LAN, but now, I lose connectivity almost every day. I often have to re-setup the Home office networking. Some times it works, sometimes it doesn't.
    However, I suspect that it may have some problems with the firewall setting. Once too, I saw a Windows error message that said something about having problems with a Generic host driver.
    Could someone help me out?

    Citizen K

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      Re: Networking not working with XP SP2
      « Reply #1 on: November 18, 2007, 06:12:35 PM »
      Windows gives me this message:
      Generic Host Process for Win32 has encountered a problem and needs to close
      Is it possible that the XP is corrupted?

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      Re: Networking not working with XP SP2
      « Reply #2 on: November 20, 2007, 01:21:44 PM »
      You can try this patch and see if it helps...

      http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/MS03-026.mspx

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      Citizen K

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        Re: Networking not working with XP SP2
        « Reply #3 on: November 24, 2007, 04:06:37 PM »
        I downloaded the patch but it works only with regular XP, not on SP@. However, I have in the meantime solved the problem. I needed to specify the exceptions on the Firewall in order for my workstations to access the server connection.